1.   Approval in those countries had been considered a formality because the legislatures are controlled by the governments that negotiated the treaty.

2.   Democrats control the legislatures in California, Georgia and North Carolina.

3.   Democrats will be governors and will control state legislatures next year in California and Washington state.

4.   Republicans also control the legislatures in six of the seven states, the exception being New Mexico.

5.   The president halted work on the plant in October, prompting a storm of protest from the Nationalists, who control the legislature.

6.   With the exception of New Mexico, all the states now have legislatures controlled by Republicans.

7.   Opposition leaders, who control the legislature, called an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the measures.

8.   Power is centralized in the presidency, controlled without challenge for decades by the National Democratic Party, which also overwhelmingly controls the legislature.

9.   Rao plans to attend a conference this week in Tamil Nadu on the language, mythology and literature of Tamils, the ethnic minority that controls the legislature.

10.   A simple majority is needed to control the legislature.